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As Everton become engulfed in despair, Sam Allardyce can be in no doubt that he has lost the support of their fans. On this evidence, it is hard to see how he regains it. Those who made the trip to Turf Moor were furious as the possibility of a rare away win was squandered by indiscipline and a lack of ruthlessness.

Much of their anger was reserved for their beleaguered manager as their team fell to a sixth successive away defeat and ended with 10 men following a late and deserved red card for captain Ashley Williams.

“I feel worse than the fans,” Allardyce said. “It’s my responsibility. I go home and say to myself: ‘How do I put this right?’ For me to see the players underperform in the second half is very disappointing for me. It’s my problem to sort it out.”

Allardyce is not solely to blame for his side’s troubles this season, which are as much down to an incoherent transfer policy and underperforming players as managerial mistakes. Yet he is not helping himself. His substitutions have brought criticism from Everton’s fans before, but not as vociferously as they did at Turf Moor.

His decision to bring on Wayne Rooney early in the second half made little impact; replacing his lively goalscorer Cenk Tosun with Oumar Niasse brought open dissent from the away end, and that only intensified when the dangerous Gylfi Sigurdsson was withdrawn as Everton chased an equaliser. Allardyce responded by saying that Tosun, making only his second start following his £27 million move from Besiktas in January, was tiring.

“My job is not about what the fans are saying or not saying,” Allardyce said. “Cenk was running out of legs. We replaced him with Oumar, who had fresh legs and has scored more goals recently that anyone else. Everyone has an opinion on a game of football.”

Everton’s manager was more forthright on the sending off of Williams for swinging an elbow at Ashley Barnes four minutes from the end. “Unprofessional,” was Allardyce’s verdict.

The visitors had been in a strong position to win the game at half-time, having taken a 20th-minute lead as Tosun guided a downward header past Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope after Theo Walcott’s cross had been glanced on by Seamus Coleman.

Everton fans were baffled and angered by some of Sam Allardyce's callsCredit:
REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Walcott, still working to regain his confidence after so long in the wilderness at Arsenal, had three good first-half chances to score himself, skying the first from a Sigurdsson pull back, before failing to beat Pope with two tame finishes.

Burnley, seeking confidence themselves after 11 league games without a win, might have wondered if they would be thwarted again, as Everton No 1 Jordan Pickford made four good saves in front of the watching England manager Gareth Southgate.

Pickford, a strong contender to start for his country when they play Holland and Italy in friendlies later this month, showed fine reactions to push away a Barnes chance in the first half, then keep out former Evertonian Aaron Lennon’s first-time shot and Ben Mee’s header soon after the interval.

Chris Wood came off the bench at half-time after 10 games out and scores the winnerCredit:
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The match turned when Michael Keane, the ex-Burnley defender, was caught on his heels as Barnes raced on to Matt Lowton’s through pass to drive a shot past Pickford.

Sigurdsson created and then wasted a great chance to restore Everton’s lead, slicing wide after manoeuvring his way through, before the home side took advantage of more defensive wobbling. Chris Wood, making his return as a substitute after more than two months out with a knee injury, jumped above Keane to head in Johann Gudmundsson’s corner, and cement Burnley’s standing in seventh place. That might be enough for Europe yet.

“The next game is the goal,” said Turf Moor manager Sean Dyche. “It is a big marker to get to 40 with nine games to go. It took us a whole season last year. It takes the monkey off everyone’s back.”

Full time

For the first time in the Premier League, Burnley have come from behind to win a game. Chris Wood scored the winner and has made the next few days difficult ones for Sam Allardyce. Everton have lost five in a row and the fans are livid with his style and judgment. Keane and Williams were outmuscled, outrun and outfought. So much money wasted over the past 18 months. Burnley exploited their profound vulnerabilities and played very well, Gudmundsson, Lennon, Lowton, Ward and Barnes in particular going forward, Mee and Tarkowski solid as usual at the back.

90 min

87 min

Gueye drops in at centre-back. Everton fans are frozen and livid at this pusillanimous second-half defensive display. The signs were there in the first but they've fallen to pieces after the break. Their away form, one win in 23, is 'absolutely embarrassing' says boyhood Blue Jamie Carragher.

85 min

83 min

Allardyce takes off Sigurdsson and sends on Bolasie. The Everton fans protest that decision - who to take off - vociferously. There's one or two 'you don't know what your doings', a few 'sacked in the mornings' though that may be the home fans taunts and 'there's only one Davy Klaassen' for Allardyce's Papillon.

81 min

A pair of Burnley corners earned by Barnes relentlessness. He beats Martin to win the first and from it sets up Lennon for a shot after bullying Keane that is deflected behind. From that one Williams takes a nap, lets Wood run off him and bury a header form six yards. Dreadful defending. Negligent beyond belief. Burnley are a handful, no doubt, but Everton are helping them.

Goal!

79 min

Neat work from the slippery Calvert-Lewin to beat Lowton on the outside with a stop-start surge. He squares the left-wing cross to Sigurdsson who controls it with a sumptuous touch then takes another to open the angle for a left-foot shot that he slices wide. He did two things magnificently but the shot was awful.

77 min

Niasse hooks an overhead volley over after great defending from Burnley stops Sigurdsson converting Walcott's threatening cross. Niasse's workrate and tireless running is beginning to cause a few problems for Burnley.

73 min

71 min

Jamie Carragher thinks defenders are so unused to playing against a front two, one winning it in the air and knocking it on for the other, that very few can cope with the constant physical battle and hard running.

69 min

67 min

Keane and Williams let Barnes have two strikes at goal with their lax marking and thinking. First Burnley carve them open down the inside-right with another angled long pass but this time Pickford blocks it at the near post. Then from the rebound, Williams misses a header and Pickford has to save Barnes's.

65 min

Rooney receives more praise from commentators for exemplary execution of fundamental skills than almost anyone else. They invest every performance of his with so much hope. 'Give us a sign, oh Lord, to show you are undiminished.'

62 min

59 min

Rooney replaces Davies but he's outpaced almost immediately as is Martina to allow the Burnley midfield to work it out to the left for Gudmundsson. He whips in another excellent cross from the left with his left, its trajectory bending it out for Wood but Williams manages to get there first and knocks it behind for a corner with a feint touch. The corner raises Everton's hearts into their mouths but they survive with some judgment and more luck.

57 min

It's been coming and again it's Keane who leaves the door open. Lowton bends a 40-yard pass down the right, between Martina and Keane. It's Keane's to deal with as it curves infield but Barnes sprints past him and wallops in a right-foot shot. Pickford stayed close to his goalline to try to hug his near post and stop him knocking it past there. But Barnes applied too much force and belted it beyond him.

55 min

54 min

Everton free-kick, 40 yards out. Sigurdsson takes and bends it in from the left with his right foot. Williams makes the infield diagonal run from the 18-yard line and attempts to glance it past Pope but his header is too fine and he succeeds only in diverting it wide.

52 min

49 min

In comes the corner, quite a high one but it dips threateningly and Mee gets to it at at the near post and diverts it towards the other stick. Wood arrives at roughly the same time as Pickford who again manages to deny Burnley. For two years at Sunderland and Everton he's never had a quiet moment. He must be shell shocked by the repeated bombardment.

48 min

Another cross, this time from the left by Gudmundsson is flicked on at the near post and Met by Lennon at the back post, 12 yards out. He lashes his shot towards goal and Pickford turns it behind sharply.

46 min

Half time

Cenk Tosun walks off for his orange flashing a Macca rampant thumb at his manager who keeps chewing doggedly as he nods at him. Burnley look sharp and will think the scoreline does them a disservice because Pickford has been magnificent. Here are your half-time maths:

45 min

43 min

Both Burnely full-backs and both wide midfielders - Gudmundsson and Lennon - are all crossing with menace today, using pace and bend. Everton, up against Barnes, a beast in the air, are far from comfort. Jamie Carragher says of Barnes in admiration: 'I'm glad I'm not playing against him today.'

41 min

Chance! Gudmundsson bends the free-kick from the left to the far post. It dips in front of Lennon who lunges at it to square it back through the six-yard box but it takes a deflection which robs it of its sting so it doesn't arrive at Mee's feet quickly and by the time it does, Pickford has time to adjust and dive to block from point-blank range.

37 min

34 min

Keane makes a terrific and telling intervention to thwart Barnes running through the inside-right channel, staying close and composed to nick the flighted ball away but less than a minute later he is exposed by the same player on the other side of the Everton box when Barnes turns him like a Weeble to get on the end of Ward's pass. Excellent control on the chest and then a touch takes him away from Keane but he drives his shot too close to Pickford.

32 min

29 min

Terrific cross from Lowton after a throw-in, met by Barnes at the near post perfectly and Pickford soars to his right to tip it round the frame. Both sides look very dangerous on the break. Here's Tosun's goal:

27 min

Better defensively from Martina who sticks with Lennon and blocks his cross out for a throw-in. Lennon does better second time and drives a low cross through Martina's legs. Some penalty box pinball ensues until Gueye blocks Westwood's shot and Everton break quickly with Walcott. Slick passing and aggressive running overload Burnley's defence and a mistake from Lowton lets a pass through to Walcott on the left of the box but he takes it too close to Pope and narrows the angle too much. He can only slot his shot into Pope's chest.

25 min

Jamie Carragher is pointing out that Everton's instinct might be to hold on to their lead but they really need to kick on for the sake of their supporters, maintain their post-goal surge and score a second.

23 min

Walcott's pace is troubling Burnley as Lennon's is Everton. This time Walcott skedaddles through midfield, plays in Davies who finds Tosun on the left of the box and the striker clips a low-left-foot shot, the kind the Leeds keeper dived over last night, but Pope gets down smartly to save it from about 12 yards.

21 min

Everton free-kick that comes to naught but the defenders stay forward and Walcott skims in a right-wing cross that Coleman flicks on at the near post and Cenk Tosun meets it 10 yards out and buries the header past Pope. That's a debut goal for the Turkey centre-forward in English football.

18 min

16 min

Lennon beats the left-back in a one-on-one and gets round Martina. He hastily scuttles in a bouncing cross through the six-yard box that Burnley bundle out to about 15 yards but straight to Cork who lashes a left-foot shot into the crowd.

13 min

Walcott wastes a golden opportunity in the box after terrific work from Sigurdsson who danced through the box, ball under immaculate control, from the left. He squares it and both Davies and Walcott converge. Davies probably in the better position to fire it in with his right foot but Walcott got there first and woofed it over the bar with his left from about seven yards.

10 min

Burnley again get in down the right - Lennon races past Calvert-Lewin and whips in a cross that Barnes controls on the 18-yard line, back to goal, having been teed up by Lowton's flick. He rolls it back to Gudmundsson who smacks a shot into orbit. Keane and Williams gave Lowton and Barnes too much space there.

8 min

6 min

Gudmundsson, lively on the left, whips in a cross that takes a deflection off a defender and balloons towards Pickford. Then Lowton makes a probing run down the right and swerves in an outswinger that almost reaches Barnes but a combination of Coleman and Gueye scramble it away. Calvert-Lewin, who is a centre-forward not a left-winger, can't deal with Lowton's runs.

5 min

3 min

And drives it into the other box but Burnley deal with it comfortably. Walcott picks the ball up on halfway, makes a rapid diagonal infield run and steers a pass to meet Tom Davies' run from a left-half position. Lowton anticipates his movement and slides in to make a fair but hard tackle.

1 min

We're off and Burnley knock it forward. Everton fans hit a full-throated peak early. Everton have Sigurdsson behind Tosun and Calvert-Lewin on the left. Pickford takes a free-kick from 10 yards outside his box.

Sam Allardyce on a Turf Moor return

It’s going to be tough against Burnley because they’re very good on their own patch. Michael Keane wants to show how good he is on his return, hopefully he will be solid and sound as he was for Burnley.

Good morning

Let's kick off with the team news - and Everton make changes after their rotten performance at Watford and Aaron Lennon starts for Burnley against his old club, back in the No25 shirt of his teenage years:

Team news

Aaron Lennon, the Burnley winger, has said he will not celebrate if he scores against his former club Everton later today in the lunch-time kick off at Turf Moor.

Lennon, 30, joined the Burnley in January for an undisclosed fee following a three-year spell with Everton. Asked ahead of Saturday's game if he would celebrate should he get on the scoresheet, Lennon said: "No. Just because the fans were great for me – they were so supportive through a lot of difficult times. I wouldn't celebrate if I scored, no."

Lennon, who made 77 appearances for Everton, returned to action for the Merseyside club in August having not been part of the match-day squad for the final nine games of the 2016-17 season.

In May it emerged he had been detained under the Mental Health Act amid concerns for his welfare, with Everton at the time saying he was receiving treatment for a "stress-related illness".

In July, as he thanked various people for their support, Lennon said that which he had received from Everton and their fans had been "incredible".

He joined the club in February 2015 on loan from Tottenham until the end of that season, before making the move permanent at the start of 2015-16.

And he added ahead of Saturday's match: "Everton was great for me. The lads, everyone to do with the football club, the fans as well, from the moment I got there, they were great with me. I haven't got a bad word to say about Everton Football Club."

Saturday's match at Turf Moor is due to kick off at 12.30pm and you can follow all the action right here with our minute-by-minute commentary, piloted by the inimitable Rob Bagchi who will bring you all the build-up and team news and, of course, live updates from midday onwards.